The Lahore High Court on Thursday conditionally allowed former prime minister, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf to participate in the general elections. Earlier, an election tribunal had rejected Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s nomination on account of his involvement in the rental power projects and a court of contempt case. The court decided that since Ashraf...

National Party leader Dr Abdul Hai Baloch, who had been named among the nominees for caretaker prime minister, ruled himself out from becoming the interim premier, Express News reported Tuesday. Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf had nominated Dr Baloch after a deadlock had developed with the opposition parties led by the Pakistan Muslim...

Khurshid hosts lunch for Ashraf, no talks on platter [CENTER] 9 March 2013 press trust of india [SIZE=4]AJMER/JAIPUR, 9 MARCH: Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf today prayed at the Ajmer Sharif shrine for peace in his country during his short visit to Ajmer and Jaipur, where External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshi...

Today I am praying for my Muslim friends and extended family. Because I know they are afraid. We don't have any official confirmation yet whether or not the two brothers who Boston Marathon bombers are Muslim or not. There are many reports, though, and already anti-Muslim statements are being made. More...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Zaka Ashraf on Wednesday became the country’s first elected head of the sport, winning a four-year term under a new constitution approved earlier this year. The International Cricket Council (ICC) directed all its members to run their boards democratically and without government interference,...

ISLAMABAD: With still much left to cover, today (Tuesday) is the last day for the leader of the house in the dissolved National Assembly and the opposition leader to build consensus over one name for the office of the interim prime minister. Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Leader of the House, Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and Pakista...

KARACHI / QUETTA / RAWALPINDI / LAHORE: Raja Pervaiz Ashraf may be a former prime minister, but apparently he is not ‘Sadiq’ and ‘Ameen’ (sagacious and righteous) enough to run for elections. At least, that’s what a two-member election tribunal of Rawalpindi division decided on Monday. Ashraf’s papers were rejected on three counts: for aw...

Saudi to retain ban on non- Muslim places of worship Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia will retain its longstanding ban on non-Muslim places of worship, Justice Minister Mohammed al-Issa said in comments reported by the Saudi media on Wednesday. As Saudi Arabia is "home to the Muslim holy places, it does not allow the establishment of non-M...

By Michael Young It is a fact that the notion of a clash of civilisations, first popularised by the American academic Samuel Huntington, is more relevant than ever in the minds of many people. Especially when it concerns Muslim-Western relations, there is a view that Muslim and Western values are incompatible. And yet Huntington’s argumen...

ISLAMABAD: Two independent members of national assembly (MNA) from FATA joined Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in presence of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf who said that PPP has turned politics in positive way by its policy of reconciliation, Geo News reported. According to details, two independent MNAs Jawwad Hussain and Sajid Hussain...

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Ok, so as the title says, I fancy a Muslim girl. Is that a bad thing? I'm English, white, and Christian (I'm not religious in any way I just had that pedo guy reenact that scene out of lion king where he runs water on my forehead and says Simba) Back on topic. Me and this Muslim girl get on very well, which in itself is pretty strange. At...

If Femen really want to help Muslim women they should address the fact that for far too long now, Muslim women have been marginalised, bombed, raped, killed, and enslaved by men from the western world. They should work within their own countries to try and subvert future wars against Muslim countries and help break down barriers. Or perha...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court remarked on Tuesday that former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf can be summoned to the court for appointing his son-in-law Raja Azeemul Haque in the World Bank, reported Express News Justice Saqib Nasir said that Ashraf had misused his position by appointing his son-in-law to a key post using his discretion...

In the hadith Ibn Umar related that the Holy Prophet said: If a Muslim calls another kafir, then if he is a kafir let it be so; otherwise, he [the caller] is himself a kafir.'' (Abu Dawud, Book of Sunna, edition published by Quran Mahal, Karachi, vol. iii, p. 484) With Special Thanks to 'GEEK' Now, in the light of this Hadi , is Mulla Faz...

After the Boston Marathon tragedy, the American Muslim community has responded rather predictably: Islam and America can co-exist. In an earlier op-ed in The Dallas Morning News , I made a similar argument. I argued that my diverse identities - as a male, a Bangladeshi and a Muslim - constitute my overall American identity. More...

LONDON: A man is being held in custody Sunday after admitting threatening to kill Britain’s Prince Harry, police said Sunday. Ashraf Islam, 30, was arrested on May 23 — the day after a British soldier was butchered to death in a London street in a suspected extremist attack — after attending a west London police station. Harry, 28 — a Bri...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is staging an anti-Israel rally in Cairo to protest Israeli airstrikes in Syria and the detention of a Muslim cleric. Chants of "the people want destruction of Israel" rang out Friday inside Al-Azhar mosque, the centuries-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning. The rally is the first such protest by the...

I've recently been talking to a Muslim guy and we've been seeing eachother for the past few weeks now and getting closer and closer. I feel like our relationship is doomed however for a number of reasons. First of all, I go to university in London and he *used* to go there too, he actually got kicked out last year, but his parents don't k...

NEW DELHI: Almost a year after President Asif Ali Zardari visited the shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz in Ajmer Sharif, Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf will undertake his first to India this week to seek blessings. “Pakistan’s prime minister will be in India on Saturday. This is a private visit and he will be accompanied by his fam...